I managed to come to the logical break point of the action scene I was writing yesterday, which brought me back to the "plot set up" scene". That in and of itself should make the scene fairly easy to write; I know where the plot goes, I just push the scene toward that.
The problem comes in the form of me being much more of a discovery writer than an outlining writer, and just watching the scene go where it wants.... which puts the character in a different location than I originally expected. It also has the character sit down.
There's a reason than in theater you never let your scenic designed put a sofa on the stage - it eats the action.
The same thing happened with a building stoop. The character sat down and started going over the things they'd picked up in the prior scene (something that had to do), and the action just sort of petered out like one of those toy cars that you pull back and watch go.
Now, the character was originally going to review these things in the same location that the "plot device" was that propelled them into the next scene. I say plot device, cause it should at first appear like a piece of random chance, but after a couple of other things, the reader should realize that nothing in this story is chance.
Anyway, because the character plopped down in a different spot then I originally thought they would, it created an awkward lull because the "plot device" was nowhere to be seen. It simply couldn't exist where the character sat.
Thankfully a brief chat with a friend opened the door to a couple of possibilities. The resulting prose that got me to the daily word count is awkward, but it gets the job done. More importantly, it can be fixed in rewrites.
Here's the tally boys and girls:
Daily Word Count:1,683
Total Word Count: 8911
Tomorrow, "plot devices" and a seven story fall.
And remember....
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